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HMS Shrewsbury (1758)

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Name
  
HMS Shrewsbury

Laid down
  
14 January 1756

Construction started
  
14 January 1756

Builder
  
Deptford Dockyard

Ordered
  
31 October 1755

Commissioned
  
March 1758

Launched
  
23 February 1758

Fate
  
Scuttled off Jamaica, 1783

Class and type
  
Dublin-class ship of the line

HMS Shrewsbury was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 February 1758 at Deptford Dockyard.

In 1783, she was condemned and scuttled.

References

HMS Shrewsbury (1758) Wikipedia